Re: [cobalt-developers] swatch

[Will DeHaan <will@xxxxxxxxxx>]

swatch (aka Active Monitor) monitors and repairs system services and
resources.

How long has this swatch process been running?  I've never heard of a
runaway process before.  The program is very fast and lean.  It is
invoked every 15 minutes from /etc/crontab.  /etc/cobalt/swatch contains
per-service configuration files for swatch.


	-- Will

Daniel Foster wrote:
> 
> There's a process called swatch running that's taking up all (well,
> 96%) of my processor time on a RaQ3i.  The line from `ps` says it's
> been called like
> /bin/bash -c /usr/local/sbin/swatch >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> I have never typed this, and I'm a bit concerned over it's excessive
> processor usage.  I look for anything named swatch* with find, and
> apparently there's '/etc/cobalt/swatch/', 'swatch.conf' in that
> directory, '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Cobalt/swatch.pm', upon
> reading of which I can gain nothing, and '/usr/local/sbin/swatch'.
> 
> There's a load of other config files in '/etc/cobalt/swatch', but it's
> beyond me what this actually does.  Can anyone shed any light and tell
> me if it's okay to kill it?  If I can't then could anyone recommend
> something in order to reduce it's processor usage somewhat, since this
> ought to be a fairly lightly loaded box at the moment.
> 
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> 
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